2007-01-23 02:23:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Rub a dub dub/ Three men in a tub/ and who do you think they be?/ The butcher, the baker/ The candlestick maker/ all floating out to sea
2007-01-23 02:33:36 · answer #1 · answered by Katie B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wikipedia
The oldest known printed version from the 14th century goes:
Hey! Rub-a-dub-dub! Ho! Rub-a-dub-dub! Three maids in a tub,
And who do you think were there?
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker,
And all of them gone to the fair!
This is interpreted as describing otherwise respectable tradesmen attending a peep-show.[1][2]
Another version runs:
Rub a dub dub,
Three men in a tub,
And who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker,
The candlestick maker.
Turn them out, knaves all three!
P.S. I think the pea green boat was the owl and the pussycat
2007-01-23 02:40:38 · answer #2 · answered by PJ H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Three worthy merchants, one of them the mayor of a small town, were caught with prostitutes at a peep show. The rhyme "Rub-a-dub, three men in a tub" refers to that event. It's one of the few Mother Goose rhymes that wasn't about royalty, but average people.
Yes, it was the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker (the chandler).
Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater was about a man who murdered his wayward wife and buried her in his pumpkin patch.
2007-01-23 02:47:04 · answer #3 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub. The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. That's all I know.
2007-01-23 02:28:23 · answer #4 · answered by plaplant8 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three Men In A Tub? Rub a dub dub?
2007-01-23 02:29:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a rhyme and starts with something about "went to sea, in a beautiful pea green boat"... but that is all I can remember... been at least 60 year ago that I heard it.
2007-01-23 02:33:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋